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We had Chinese food for dinner tonight; no movie beforehand, though.
We went with a large group of people, which I think started with Carrie Root and Andy Hooper calling a few friends, and then Andy posted to the Vanguard (Seattle fannish) list on the 23rd inviting anyone who didn't have plans for this evening. It wound up being 13 of us, at a quite good place up in Lake City, Yu Shan. The service was a bit haphazard, and our scallion pancakes arrived after most of our main dishes, but everything was good. They brought enough pancakes with the Peking Duck, the green beans and house fried rice were above average, and the people who can eat spicy praised the cumin lamb highly.
The conversation was also good. I didn't get to talk to everyone, of course (we were at two tables, and there wasn't much movement back and forth). I was next to Carrie, who I think I last got to talk to at length at a Wiscon, back when she lived in Madison. It was also good to talk to Marci and Andi again; Amy Thomson and I didn't get to do much more than hug and agree that yes, we really do want to get together, but she suggested we might want to wait for warmer and/or drier weather.
I've been getting unseasonable amounts of sunlight, but the thing about it being unseasonable is that I don't want to count on it. Instead, I am grabbing it when I see it, even if that means a random trip to Uwajimaya on Monday because I needed a destination. That was well worth it: there was a sun shower, and a fine rainbow from the bus window on the way over, and a fainter one while waiting for the bus back. The baby bok choy was nice too.
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cattitude and I also got a couple of hours of sunlight at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday morning; the angle of the sun made it harder to watch the young short-clawed otters playing. Such a pity. The jaguar cubs we saw last summer are pretty well grown now, and were curled up in pairs, sleeping; they will be moving to other zoos in the spring. (We had planned the trip a few days earlier, because he had the day off, and it seemed like a good way to enjoy the day while staying away from malls and such.)
*For all that "Chinese food and a movie" is a traditional New York Jewish/non-Christian thing to do on Christmas, I'm not sure Cattitude and I ever did the combo when we lived there. He suggested we see a movie, but I didn't want to wear myself out; the bus trip was straightforward, but it did take an hour (and would have taken an hour and a half, on the holiday schedule, if we hadn't made a ridiculously good connection and arrived well before the stated time).
We went with a large group of people, which I think started with Carrie Root and Andy Hooper calling a few friends, and then Andy posted to the Vanguard (Seattle fannish) list on the 23rd inviting anyone who didn't have plans for this evening. It wound up being 13 of us, at a quite good place up in Lake City, Yu Shan. The service was a bit haphazard, and our scallion pancakes arrived after most of our main dishes, but everything was good. They brought enough pancakes with the Peking Duck, the green beans and house fried rice were above average, and the people who can eat spicy praised the cumin lamb highly.
The conversation was also good. I didn't get to talk to everyone, of course (we were at two tables, and there wasn't much movement back and forth). I was next to Carrie, who I think I last got to talk to at length at a Wiscon, back when she lived in Madison. It was also good to talk to Marci and Andi again; Amy Thomson and I didn't get to do much more than hug and agree that yes, we really do want to get together, but she suggested we might want to wait for warmer and/or drier weather.
I've been getting unseasonable amounts of sunlight, but the thing about it being unseasonable is that I don't want to count on it. Instead, I am grabbing it when I see it, even if that means a random trip to Uwajimaya on Monday because I needed a destination. That was well worth it: there was a sun shower, and a fine rainbow from the bus window on the way over, and a fainter one while waiting for the bus back. The baby bok choy was nice too.
cattitude and I also got a couple of hours of sunlight at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday morning; the angle of the sun made it harder to watch the young short-clawed otters playing. Such a pity. The jaguar cubs we saw last summer are pretty well grown now, and were curled up in pairs, sleeping; they will be moving to other zoos in the spring. (We had planned the trip a few days earlier, because he had the day off, and it seemed like a good way to enjoy the day while staying away from malls and such.)*For all that "Chinese food and a movie" is a traditional New York Jewish/non-Christian thing to do on Christmas, I'm not sure Cattitude and I ever did the combo when we lived there. He suggested we see a movie, but I didn't want to wear myself out; the bus trip was straightforward, but it did take an hour (and would have taken an hour and a half, on the holiday schedule, if we hadn't made a ridiculously good connection and arrived well before the stated time).